Daughter of Melvin Roy & Bertha E. (DeMetz) Hughes.
Bessie was a veteran of WWII, having served in the Womens Army Air Corps.
Bessie's loss of her first husband, Claude Dean Shoemaker, who was killed on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in 1942, is what inspired her second husband, George R. Brown, to approach the Fairmount Memorial Park about honoring her first husband with a flag at the Iwo Jima memorial at the Fairmount Memorial Park. Today some 2,300 flags are raised at the cemetery every Memorial day weekend.
BROWN, Bessie G. -- Passed away March 31, 1981. Her home Spokane. Preceded in death by her husband, George R. Brown. A member of the Ladies Auxiliary to the VFW #5924, Elk, WA; American Legion Post # Nine, Amvets Post #0113, Cootiette Clubs #494, Ladies Auxiliary Fraternal Order of Eagles Spokane Valley Aerie #3433. Mass of Christian Burial will be Monday, April 6, 1981 at 10 a.m. at St. Anthony Catholic Church, N2320 Cedar. Rev. Paul Wenning officiating. Private Intermnent Fairmount Memorial Park. Friends who wish may make memorial contributions to the American Cancer Society, Spokane County Unit, 1717 Nw Blvd., Spokane, WA 99205. BALL & DOOD-THORNHILL & LANGBEHN FUNERAL DICRECTORS, 5421 DIVISION ST. in charge.
(Spokane Chronicle, Spokane, WA, Sat. Apr. 4, 1981, p. 13, Col. 4)
Bessie was a veteran of WWII, having served in the Womens Army Air Corps.
Bessie's loss of her first husband, Claude Dean Shoemaker, who was killed on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in 1942, is what inspired her second husband, George R. Brown, to approach the Fairmount Memorial Park about honoring her first husband with a flag at the Iwo Jima memorial at the Fairmount Memorial Park. Today some 2,300 flags are raised at the cemetery every Memorial day weekend.
BROWN, Bessie G. -- Passed away March 31, 1981. Her home Spokane. Preceded in death by her husband, George R. Brown. A member of the Ladies Auxiliary to the VFW #5924, Elk, WA; American Legion Post # Nine, Amvets Post #0113, Cootiette Clubs #494, Ladies Auxiliary Fraternal Order of Eagles Spokane Valley Aerie #3433. Mass of Christian Burial will be Monday, April 6, 1981 at 10 a.m. at St. Anthony Catholic Church, N2320 Cedar. Rev. Paul Wenning officiating. Private Intermnent Fairmount Memorial Park. Friends who wish may make memorial contributions to the American Cancer Society, Spokane County Unit, 1717 Nw Blvd., Spokane, WA 99205. BALL & DOOD-THORNHILL & LANGBEHN FUNERAL DICRECTORS, 5421 DIVISION ST. in charge.
(Spokane Chronicle, Spokane, WA, Sat. Apr. 4, 1981, p. 13, Col. 4)
Daughter of Melvin Roy & Bertha E. (DeMetz) Hughes.
Bessie was a veteran of WWII, having served in the Womens Army Air Corps.
Bessie's loss of her first husband, Claude Dean Shoemaker, who was killed on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in 1942, is what inspired her second husband, George R. Brown, to approach the Fairmount Memorial Park about honoring her first husband with a flag at the Iwo Jima memorial at the Fairmount Memorial Park. Today some 2,300 flags are raised at the cemetery every Memorial day weekend.
BROWN, Bessie G. -- Passed away March 31, 1981. Her home Spokane. Preceded in death by her husband, George R. Brown. A member of the Ladies Auxiliary to the VFW #5924, Elk, WA; American Legion Post # Nine, Amvets Post #0113, Cootiette Clubs #494, Ladies Auxiliary Fraternal Order of Eagles Spokane Valley Aerie #3433. Mass of Christian Burial will be Monday, April 6, 1981 at 10 a.m. at St. Anthony Catholic Church, N2320 Cedar. Rev. Paul Wenning officiating. Private Intermnent Fairmount Memorial Park. Friends who wish may make memorial contributions to the American Cancer Society, Spokane County Unit, 1717 Nw Blvd., Spokane, WA 99205. BALL & DOOD-THORNHILL & LANGBEHN FUNERAL DICRECTORS, 5421 DIVISION ST. in charge.
(Spokane Chronicle, Spokane, WA, Sat. Apr. 4, 1981, p. 13, Col. 4)
Bessie was a veteran of WWII, having served in the Womens Army Air Corps.
Bessie's loss of her first husband, Claude Dean Shoemaker, who was killed on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in 1942, is what inspired her second husband, George R. Brown, to approach the Fairmount Memorial Park about honoring her first husband with a flag at the Iwo Jima memorial at the Fairmount Memorial Park. Today some 2,300 flags are raised at the cemetery every Memorial day weekend.
BROWN, Bessie G. -- Passed away March 31, 1981. Her home Spokane. Preceded in death by her husband, George R. Brown. A member of the Ladies Auxiliary to the VFW #5924, Elk, WA; American Legion Post # Nine, Amvets Post #0113, Cootiette Clubs #494, Ladies Auxiliary Fraternal Order of Eagles Spokane Valley Aerie #3433. Mass of Christian Burial will be Monday, April 6, 1981 at 10 a.m. at St. Anthony Catholic Church, N2320 Cedar. Rev. Paul Wenning officiating. Private Intermnent Fairmount Memorial Park. Friends who wish may make memorial contributions to the American Cancer Society, Spokane County Unit, 1717 Nw Blvd., Spokane, WA 99205. BALL & DOOD-THORNHILL & LANGBEHN FUNERAL DICRECTORS, 5421 DIVISION ST. in charge.
(Spokane Chronicle, Spokane, WA, Sat. Apr. 4, 1981, p. 13, Col. 4)
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